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Tippi Hedren: Animal Activist, Hollywood Icon

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 8/27/12

The star of two now classic pictures, Tippi Hedren looks back on her strained relationship with the controlling director Hitchcock and forward to her Capital Hill appearance on behalf of the "big cats" she defends at her California Shambala preserve.

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Frank Langella, Robot & Frank

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 8/20/12

Frank Langella may star opposite a robot in Robot & Frank but that doesn't mean he stops stealing every scene in this Sundance hit about an ex-con who isn't going quietly into his twilight years. Langella also discusses his bestselling memoir.

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Linus Roache, $upercapitalist

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 8/13/12

Linus Roache, best known for his time on Law and Order, stars in what is billed as the first China-US co-production. Naturally, the English actor represents the American side in this Hong Kong-based "Wall Street-style" drama, $upercapitalist.

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Anne Émond, Nuit #1

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 8/6/12

Filmmaker Anne Émond hits the proverbial jackpot with her intimate Nuit #1, a two character study of intimacy and existential angst. Émond candidly speaks of her ambition, honesty and the players, her Parisian leading man and Montreal actress.

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Cillian Murphy, Red Lights

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/30/12

Well known as a Batman villain, the Irishman now teams with Sigourney Weaver in Rodrigo Cortes' film playing an American physics professor out to scientifically debunk mystics, psychics and anyone else who claims to have paranormal abilities.

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Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/23/12

A prolific filmmaker who is celebrated for his collaborations with actresses such as Virginie Ledoyen, Benoît Jacquot explains why he wanted to adapt Chantal Thomas’ bestselling novel about Marie Antoinette's reaction to the French Revolution.

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Diane Kruger, Farewell, My Queen

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/16/12

Diane Kruger explains how natural it seemed to play German-born, French-based Marie Antoinette in Farewell, My Queen, which charts the monarch’s fateful four days in Versailles following the Bastille’s fall and the start of the Revolution.

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Bart Layton, The Imposter

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/2/12

The cliché "Truth is far stranger than any fiction" is certainly one aspect of Bart Layton’s fascinating, mind-boggling documentary The Imposter where a boy's disappearance leads to a case of mistaken identity filled with Hitchcockian twists.

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Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now?

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/28/12

Lebanon's Nadine Labaki refers to her country as tiny, without a film industry but there's nothing insubstantial about Where Do We Go Now?, the acclaimed writer-director-actress's sophomore effort that opened New Directors/New Films this year.

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François Cluzet, The Intouchables

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/28/12

In this Special Edition installment of Beyond the Subtitles, François Cluzet candidly discusses his crossover into commercial filmmaking and what it's like to suddenly star in France's surprising blockbuster hit, the comedy-drama The Intouchables.

RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Alice Winocour, Augustine Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Alice Winocour on her film "Augustine." With great attention to historical accuracy, the film investigates the history of young women being admitted to psychiatric hospitals as "hysterics" as told through the eyes of a teenage servent Augustine. Writer-director Alice Winocour's Augustine is rare film that actually stays close to the known facts. She vividly brings to life the 19th Century story of Augustine, a teenage servant who became the most famous patient of pioneering French... Originally aired 5/20/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Kerry Washington & Diahann Carroll, Tyler Perry presents Peeples Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Kerry Washington (who made this years before her star turn in Scandal) and Diahann Carroll (the legend. period. after a long hiatus) discuss their roles in the Tyler Perry film Peeples, a family comedy about dysfuntion, marriage and vacation. While it’s called Tyler Perry presents Peeples, the dysfunctional family comedy actually is written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism and stars Kerry Washington as the daddy-dominated Peeples daughter Grace with Diahann Carroll in a small role as... Originally aired 5/13/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Dominic Purcell, Assault on Wall Street Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Australian actor Dominic Purcell on his transition from four seasons with the TV series “Prison Break” to Uwe Boll's new film "Assault on Wall Street"; the story of blue collar, ex-soldier who loses all to Wall Street and takes dramatic revenge. Truly a live wire, Australia’s Dominic Purcell has no trouble expressing exactly what he feels about: Life after his global breakthrough, the four season TV series “Prison Break,” what prompted him to read the script for Uwe Boll’s “Assault on Wall... Originally aired 5/6/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Brandon Cronenberg, Antiviral Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Brandon Cronenberg on his directing debut "Antiviral;" a disturbing, needle-obsessed condemnation of science gone awry and celebrity worship in a soulless society. He also touches on Cannes 2012 and his famous father, David. As to the endless question that virtually begins every interview for his filmmaking debut with the contemporary horror entry Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg manages to remain gracious and say as little as he politely can about his famous... Originally aired 4/29/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Francois Ozon, In the House Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show The French filmmaker Francois Ozon discusses his critically acclaimed movie "In the House". Having been dubbed the "French Hitchcock," Ozon reflects on his recent thriller; which is about a literature teacher's infatuation with one of his students. France’s precocious talent is now 45 and continues to mine suspense, sex, humor and psychology with his latest, the critically successful and popular French language In the House. Ozon talks about being dubbed “the French Hitchcock,” again... Originally aired 4/22/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Sally El Hosaini & James Floyd, My Brother the Devil Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Sally El Hosaini's "My Brother the Devil" details the relationship of two Egyptian-English brothers, lives that involve gangs, education, romance, art, identity and always a question of what exactly it means to be a man. From Hackney, England, Sally El Hosaini lives in public housing in her ethnically mixed neighborhood which she uses as the bright, often joyous setting for her feature writing and directing debut "My Brother the Devil". A festival favorite around... Originally aired 4/15/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Pablo Berger, Blancanieves Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Spanish director Pablo Berger discusses his version of Snow White. It's a black and white silent film, with influences from 1920s matadors. The director reveals that he has spent nearly ten years conceptualizing how he wanted to tell the tale. Blancanieves is an audacious, to say the least, retelling of the classic Snow White story, by Spain's Pablo Berger. He has opted to do so with a cast of actual dwarfs (rather than with digital technologies), in black-and-white, and as a 1920s silent... Originally aired 4/8/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Gilles Bourdos, Renoir Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Gilles Bourdos discusses his film, Renoir, which is about a scandalous love triangle between the artist, his son Jean, and his model Andree Heuschling. Schaefer predicts that this movie will among some of the year's best. Could Renoir, a delicate portrait of the great Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir--plus his future filmmaker son Jean and the model they are both entranced by--be the most gorgeous, most beautiful, most glorious movie since Elvira... Originally aired 4/1/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Gerard Butler: Olympus Has Fallen Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Scottish actor Gerard Butler discusses his role in the action-thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" and reveals the training, discipline and meticulously itemized bruises, burns and mishaps that are part and parcel of making screen magic. Gerard Butler, the Scots actor who has succeeded in action (300), romance (opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter) and drama (Law Abiding Citizen with Jamie Foxx) now must save the Free World in Olympus Has... Originally aired 3/25/13 Listen Read More »